[ubuntu-uk] Sending Gnome popup notifications over a network...

[Chris Smith]

Dave Walker wrote:
> Chris Smith wrote:
>> Joshua Scotton wrote:
>>> I was getting the same error message until I changed this part 
>>> XAUTHORITY=~owner_of:0/.Xauthority;
>>> to 
>>> XAUTHORITY=/home/user/.Xauthority;
>>>
>>> where user was the username of the person logged on and using screen :0
>>>
>>> then it worked a treat
>> Yeah the "~owner_of:0" needed to be changed to the user logged in on
>> screen :0 ie. for myself it would be "~chris/.Xauthority"
>>
>>
> 
> Surely this can be substituted with XAUTHORITY=$HOME/.Xauthority ?
> 
> Kind Regards,
> Dave Walker
> 

Assuming you are the user who is running the X session.